SUMMER 2017JAMAICA TRAVEL COURSE

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Office of Study Abroad at BSU

@BSUStudyAbroad

FACULTY LEADERS

Dr. Diana Fox d1fox@bridgew.eduHeidi Savery heidi.savery@bridgew.eduCOURSE INFORMATION

3 Undergraduate Credits in ANTH 355

COURSE DESCRIPTIONThis course will explore and analyze Jamaican tourism

practices as well as the values, beliefs and norms that un-

derlie them. In contrast to “mainstream” travel experiences

depicted in glossy magazine portrayals of Jamaica’s empty

white beaches devoid of Jamaicans, cultural heritage tour-

ism enables tourists to learn about a country directly from

its own people by engaging with Jamaican culture, history,

arts, environment, and even to contribute to its sustainabil-

ity via service projects. Students will learn from Jamaican

scholars, community leaders and activists, merchants and

artists, while at the same time experiencing the country’s

mountains, rivers, waterfalls, and beaches. Course materials

will introduce students to the anthropological perspective of

culture and a range of other conceptual and practical tools

for conducting cross-cultural research and producing ethno-

graphic and literary descriptions and analyses.

HISTORICAL SITES AND HIGHLIGHTSBob Marley Museum, National Gallery of Art, Univer-sity of West Indies Mona Campus, Devon House, Port Royal Museum, the Blue Mountains, Cascade Primary School, Twyman’s Coffee Estate, Maroon Town, Trea-sure Beach, Black River Safari, Mayfields Waterfalls, and community service projects.

PROGRAM COSTApplication fee: $25

Program price range: TBD

The program fee will never exceed the maximum

amount advertised and program fee refunds will be

issued if there are savings. PROGRAM INCLUDESSome meals, airfare, transportation, admissions, guides, events and accommodations.Additional costs: Meals, tips, luggage fees and spend-ing money.

CONTACT INFORMATION

BSU Office of Study AbroadMaxwell Library RM 330Bridgewater, MA 02325508.531.6183www.bridgew.edu/studyabroadstudyabroad@bridgew.edu

ACCOMMODATIONS

UWI Mona Housing; Prince Valley Guest House; Wilton Guest House

NOTE :All costs and dates may be subjectto change by BSU Office of Study Abroad.

APPLICATION INFORMATION:

Application deadline: February 24th, 2017

Applications will now be reviewed and students

accepted on a rolling basis. Students will be ex-

pected to pay the $300 deposit within two weeks

of notification of acceptance.

JAMAICAN CULTURAL HERITAGE TOURISMJUNE 23-JULY 3, 2017

JAMAICA

$2,650 - $2,950

Day in Middleton ~ guided hike through the garden & coffee trailsEvening Lecture with Gloria Simms aka Mama G, Maroon Chieftess.

JAMAICA

June

12

Travel to Kingston, Jamaica’s capital city Bypass town and head for the hills Settle in Prince Valley Guest HouseDinner with welcome & further introductions.

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Day

1

Morning visit to the Old Tavern Coffee Estate Lunch at the Twyman farm.Afternoon at a local school. Service learning project in collaboration with teachers & students.

Local Service Learning ProjectEvening Reflection Session & film.

Travel to University of the West IndiesBelcour Lodge Tour & Sampling Lunch at Devon House ~ Historic mansion turned tourist hot spot.UWI Campus Heritage Tour as lead by current history/heritage students. Evening lecture with Sharon Chako on Rastafari Art

June

13

June

14

June

15

Art Tour, Downtown & Port RoyalNational Gallery 41 Fleet Street Gloria’s for LunchPort Royal ~ The Fort Charles Museum Meet with J-FLAG activists - dinner conversation

June

16

Morning tour of the villages of Bluefields and discussion Service Learning Project Part I at Tate Shafston EstateLive music at Luna Sea

JAMAICA

June

18

Guided tour of the Bob Marley Museum Travel to Bluefields. Settle in at Luna Sea InnSeaside Educational Dining Experience & Introduction to the Bluefields Marine Pro-tected Area.Community Conversation with local artist Jah CaloEvening Reflection

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June

17

Lecture, Lunch & Leisure at the Bluefields Beach ParkService Learning Project Part II in the afternoon Evening Lecture & Film with Esther Figueroa at Luna Sea

Native Species Bird watching tour with Raj ToursEvening Reflection Session

June

19

June

20

Travel to Montego Bay Return Boston

June

21

Travel Writing Groups: We will create three groups to work in teams and share their insights on an as-signed section of our journey. Everyone is responsible for his or her own ethnographic travel log, but your assigned group will support you in brainstorming your ideas, analyzing your experiences, and coming up with collective definitions of key terms and concepts you’ll each want to use in your papers (see the travel log paragraphs below). When you go to write your papers, we suggest you engage in peer-review with each other to make sure your travel log includes everything you want it to. In Jamaica, we will ask each group to give a brief oral presentation of their findings from their assigned leg of the journey before we embark on our next set of experiences. As a class we can then pose questions and offer suggestions to each group that will aid everyone in completing their final travel logs upon return.

Ethnographic Travel Log: Your final paper of 7-10 pgs will be an ethnographic travel log and the product of anthropological/cultural and literary analyses rooted in your own travel experience and reflection. Do-ing ethnography relies on a mix of participation and observations. Writing a travel log allows you to keep track of your daily activities, your reactions (ethnocentric, culturally relative, empathetic) and your insights as well as your arc of learning as you move through the course. Therefore, bring along a notebook small enough to take with you throughout the day to jot down thoughts as you go; alternatively, if you’re bring-ing a tablet or phone, you can maintain notes on your device. At the end of the course, you will type up your travel notes (worth 10%) and email them to us along with your final paper (worth 30%), which must be double-spaced, with MLA citations and a works cited page. Once we have everyone’s travel logs, we will try to have them published collectively as a travel blog on the BSU intranet and share what we have learned with the campus community.

Your ethnographic travel log will analyze the cultural heritage tourist experiences of your group’s assigned leg of our journey, tracing your involvement in activities, insights gained, personal and noted group trans-formations, sensory perceptions, and reflection on the questions in your handout that are relevant to your segment. In your group you should collectively define some basic terms and concepts such as culture, vaca-tion, tourism, value, and success (as explored in the articles), which you can then identify (defining them again) and utilize in your individual travel logs. Your travel log must address your position as a cultural heritage tourist, including accommodations, transportation, interactions with locals, sites and activities, and for each new subject you must answer the following questions:What value did you find in having a particular experience in Jamaica, where you stayed, how you travelled, what you saw, etc. What did each experience teach you as a tourist about Jamaican culture? What did each experience teach you about your home culture/s in comparison? In the concluding paragraphs of your paper, please address what difference will having your specific cultural heritage tourist experiences vs. a typical commercial tourist experience make on the individual tourist, the host and guest cultures, and ulti-mately for international relationships and the global community?

* Please send your paper and travel notes as Microsoft Word attachments in one e-mail to both of us by July 14th at 5pm.

| ASSIGNMENTS

TEXTHawkes, Ethan and Kwortnik Jr., Rober J. “Connecting with the Culture: A Case Study in Sustainable Tourism.”Salazar, Noel B. and Porter, Benjamin W. “Cultural Heri-tage and Tourism: A Public Interest Approach.”

GRADINGGroup Presentation 10%Travel Notes 10%Travel Writing (7-10pages) 30%Class Participation & Attendance 50%